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Title: | Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception |
Authors: | Mitterer, Holger McQueen, James M. |
Keywords: | Speech perception Native language Perceptual learning Second language acquisition -- Case studies |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | PLOS |
Citation: | Mitterer, H., & McQueen, J. M. (2009). Foreign subtitles help but native-language subtitles harm foreign speech perception. PloS one, 4(11), e7785. |
Abstract: | Understanding foreign speech is difficult, in part because of unusual mappings between sounds and words. It is known that listeners in their native language can use lexical knowledge (about how words ought to sound) to learn how to interpret unusual speech-sounds. We therefore investigated whether subtitles, which provide lexical information, support perceptual learning about foreign speech. Dutch participants, unfamiliar with Scottish and Australian regional accents of English, watched Scottish or Australian English videos with Dutch, English or no subtitles, and then repeated audio fragments of both accents. Repetition of novel fragments was worse after Dutch-subtitle exposure but better after English-subtitle exposure. Native-language subtitles appear to create lexical interference, but foreign-language subtitles assist speech learning by indicating which words (and hence sounds) are being spoken. |
Description: | We thank Marieke Pompe and Jet Sueters for help with this experiment. This research was presented at the summer meeting of the Experimental Psychology Society, Edinburgh, July 2007, and at the 11th winter conference of the Dutch Psychonomics Society, Egmond aan Zee, December 2007. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/25354 |
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